Riyadh, A delegation of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, headed by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha, embarked on a series of official meetings during a current visit to Muscat, which aims at opening new scopes and building a fruitful cooperation between the two countries in the fields of technology and innovation. The first meeting was held with Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology Saeed Al-Mawali and Minister of Economy Saeed As-Saqri.
Meetings went over means to enhance cooperation between the two countries in the fields of speeding up the growth of digital economy in the region, cooperation in the field of digital governance and developing digital talents, in addition to discussing ways necessary to enhance cooperation between the two sides to benefit the two countries’ economies, where the meetings also stressed the importance of exchanging expertise and cooperating with the Omani side to contribute to increasing the sultanate’s competitiveness on global development indexes.
In a bid to activate strategic partnership between the two brotherly countries, the meetings were followed by signing two executive programs between the two ministries for cooperation in the digital transformation field and developing digital capacity, in the presence of Al-Swaha and Al-Mawali.
Under the developing digital capacity program, the two sides will cooperate in implementing several joint initiatives that includes the possibility of Omani national personnel to join training camps that the Saudi side, represented by the ministry, will organize through its “Future Skills” initiative that is implemented through the Saudi Digital Academy and Tweiq Academy.
Source: Saudi Press Agency